A Mother’s Fight (PART 2): Searching Every Day for Her Missing Daughter

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Breakfast Club – "A Mother’s Fight (PART 2): Searching Every Day for Her Missing Daughter"

Date: April 10, 2026
Host: Lauren LaRosa (Latest with Lauren LaRosa on The Black Effect Podcast Network), with guest Lavette Bryce (mother of missing child, August/Aisha)
Focus: The urgent, deeply personal fight of a Black mother searching for her missing daughter, and the wider issue of missing Black youth in America.

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Overview

This emotional episode centers on Lavette Bryce, a mother from Wilmington, Delaware, who has been relentlessly searching for her missing daughter, August (also known as Aisha), for over a month. Lauren LaRosa leads the discussion, using her platform to highlight the racial disparities in missing persons cases—including media coverage, law enforcement response, and community action. The episode not only details Lavette's fight but also addresses the broader crisis of missing Black children and the failing systems meant to protect them.

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Main Topics & Discussion Points

1. The Crisis of Missing Black Children in America

• Statistical Disparities:
  • According to blackandmissinginc.com, 563,000+ people were reported missing in the US in 2023; 40% are persons of color, despite Black people making up only 13% of the population ([07:40]).
  • "Not every case gets media widespread attention. But the coverage of white and minority victims are far from proportionate." – Lauren LaRosa ([07:52]).
• Misclassification and Media Neglect:
  • Black and brown children are often labeled as runaways and don’t receive Amber Alerts; minority adults are frequently assumed to be involved in criminal activity ([07:58]).
  • There's desensitization toward missing minority children, with an assumption that exposure to crime is more normal in their lives, resulting in less urgency.

2. Lavette Bryce’s Story & Struggle

• A Mother’s Determination:
  • Lavette details her daily commitment: distributing flyers, knocking door-to-door, chasing every lead—"I'm outside every day, all day. I'm spending every dime I got giving out flyers." – Lavette Bryce ([09:24]).
• Obstruction and Negligence by Authorities:
  • Disputes with police over improper handling of her daughter’s case, including incorrect information placed in the missing report, and delays in the investigation ([09:25], [27:31]).
  • "I'm doing your job. I've been doing your job for the last month." – Lavette Bryce ([10:56]).

3. Institutional Failures and Broken Systems

• Failure to File Proper Report:
  • Incorrect descriptors (labeling August as "bald with brown eyes"), misclassifying her as a runaway, omitting information on her mental health and appearance.
  • Lavette herself had to ensure the police fixed the database record and involved the mayor to get necessary updates ([27:31]–[29:01]).
• Lack of Accountability:
  • No repercussions for the officers responsible for the errors; systemic issues create additional barriers for desperate families ([30:31]).

4. The Broader Community and Collective Responsibility

• Beyond One Family:
  • Lavette emphasizes this is not just about her daughter, recognizing similar pain across the city and nation. "If we find one, we might find all of them. And it's too many of them missing." ([21:27]).
• Community Grassroots Efforts:
  • Mutual aid among mothers, vigilance on social media and Facebook groups (e.g., "Unsolved" on Facebook, run by Jackie Canard), and the circulation of flyers are primary methods of amplifying attention ([25:25]).
• Instructions for the Public:
  • If August is seen, notify the police and, if possible, keep her in sight; she may only trust people if they mention her mother or Aunt Crystal ([19:45]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

Lavette’s Raw Emotion & Critique of Authorities

• "They made it so easy for people to get on and off the highway from our kids...But y’all are not patrolling these areas. Y’all, like, you never know, you could be riding past a person screaming in the car right next to you, right next to you, and nobody’s paying attention." – Lavette Bryce ([16:33])
• "You put my daughter in as bald head with brown eyes...She’s not in my house. You’re not doing a—like, literally leave." – Lavette Bryce ([09:56], [09:44])
• "Nobody’s going to do it like you. And you know, if I stop, then everybody stops, you know, and I’m not going to stop because I don’t want nobody stop. I want everybody to remember all these girls faces." – Lavette Bryce ([21:27])

The Mother-Daughter Bond

• "My message to you is that I love you. You know I am coming for you...You just got to give me a sign and be strong and hold on and fight. Please fight." – Lavette Bryce, direct message to August ([15:17])

Community Call-to-Action

• "It's not just her and her family’s problem. This is our problem. This is not just her and her family's problem. This is our problem problem." – Lauren LaRosa ([07:13])
• "If it don’t look right, it’s not right. You need to take a picture." – Lavette Bryce ([25:19])

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Key Sections & Timestamps

• Statistics and Underreporting
  [07:40] – [08:21]
  Lauren contextualizes the statistics, causes of underreporting, and media bias.

• Lavette’s Confrontation with Police
  [09:11] – [11:02]
  Candid audio from Lavette’s interactions with officers, highlighting frustration and mismanagement.

• Mother’s Message to Missing Daughter
  [15:08] – [15:37]
  Lavette speaks directly to August with hope and urgency.

• Breakdown of Law Enforcement Failures
  [27:30] – [29:01]
  Lavette details everything wrong with the official police report and her exhausting efforts to fix it.

• Instructions for the Public
  [19:45] – [21:04]
  Guidance on approaching August and working with authorities.

• Community Outreach, Flyers, and Networks
  [25:25] – [27:10]
  Lavette describes grassroots platforms and collaboration among families.

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Conclusion & Final Plea

Lavette closes with an impassioned call for help:

"If you see her, if you see anything, any signs...contact me...I’m coming behind mine. Please help me bring my baby home. Please help me bring all the babies...Every last one of them." ([33:05]–[34:49])

Lauren LaRosa reiterates her platform is open and will continue to support Lavette and other families.

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How to Help

• If you have information:
  Contact Lavette Bryce directly: 302-367-037 (or her uncle: 215-252-2425) ([33:02], [33:05]).
• Follow and share updates:
  Lavette is active on social platforms as "Lovey."
• Support awareness:
  Share flyers, join Facebook groups (such as "Unsolved"), and stay vigilant.
• Amplify the issue:
  Demand accountability from authorities and equal media attention for all missing persons cases.

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Key Takeaways

• This episode exposes the intersection of personal anguish and systemic failure.
• Lavette's story is a window into the crisis affecting thousands of Black families in America.
• Community effort and vigilance are absolutely necessary, but institutional reform is urgent and overdue.

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"If we find one, we might find all of them. And it's too many of them missing." – Lavette Bryce ([21:27])

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Transcript

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

I'm the homegirl that knows

[Lauren LaRosa]

a little bit about everything.

[Lavette Bryce]

And everybody knows you don't lie about that, right?

Lauren came in hot.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Hey, y', all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa. And this is another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is a daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby, you are going to hear from a mother who is distraught, who has not seen her baby girl in over 38 days. A black mother who you know is a fighter and has the will and determination to not give up, who is up every day literally kicking indoors after she receives tips about where young women and young black women may be being held as they're being trafficked. You're going to hear from her throughout this episode. But I want you guys to understand what we are up against, because one thing that Lavette echoes a lot in our interview is that it's not just her daughter that she wants to help bring home. There are so many young black girls in the city of Wilmington alone. In the last several weeks, I've come across at least like, oh, my God, four to five Facebook groups who are posting daily, sometimes every 20 minutes, a new young woman, young man, baby, grown adult, elderly person that has gone missing in the city. But one of the big conversations that we are having right now are about our young black girls, our young black kids in these inner cities. According to blackandmissinginc.com, which is an organization that helps to bring platform and voice to children, black children who are missing and who are going overlooked. In 2023, there were over 563,000 persons reported missing in the United States. Now, of that over 563,000 people, 57% of those people were white, including Hispanic people. 40% of those people were minority. 40% of missing persons are persons of color. Yet black people make up only 13% of the population. And that's via census.gov Thousands of people are reported missing every year in the US and not every case gets media widespread attention. But the coverage of white and minority victims are far from proportionate. Now, blackandmissinginc.com goes on to talk about why there's a disparity in media coverage around black and brown children, black and brown people, as we go missing. The number one reason is runaways. A lot of minority children are initially classified as runaways and are as runaways. And as a result, they do not receive an Amber Alert. You will hear from Ms. Levette in my interview, talk about her daughter and how she had to fight to get an Amber Alert. The second reason being listed as criminals. Missing minority adults are labeled as associated with criminal involvement, gangs and drugs. Desensitization is the third reason. It is believed that missing minorities live in impoverished conditions and crime is a regular part of our lives. I say our because I'm from the same city that, you know, Ms. Lavette's daughter went missing at. Literally blocks away from where this young girl was last seen by her mother and by her family. I grew up. My family's there. My niece is there. This is our problem. This is not just her and her family's problem. This is our problem problem. And when I say our, I don't Just mean me, because I'm from the neighborhood. I mean that to say, this could be your daughter, this could be your niece. This could be your cousin. This could be you. This could be. I mean, I saw Savannah Guthrie, you know, go back to work today on the Today show, you know, and national news coverage around that, the FBI, the president involved in that. There's a celebrity element there.

[Lavette Bryce]

We get it.

[Lauren LaRosa]

She's a white woman. They're a white family. We get it. And we want everybody to return home safe, but we have to look at what's happening here and lack thereof. So this is everybody's problem, not just those who choose to care about news coverage. Not just. Now your baby's missing, and you're trying to figure out how to go about it. White, black, brown, green, purple. This is everybody's issue. Now, this video from Kaylen shows exactly what Ms. Levette, you know, is talking about as she searches for her daughter, August or Aisha. This video was shot early March outside of Ms. Levette's home. Here you hear Ms. Levette and her family going back and forth with police who showed up to her home to search her home after she reported her death.

[Lavette Bryce]

Because, Anthony, listen, I done been to all.

[Liberty Mutual Male Voice]

Listen.

[Lavette Bryce]

The only people who gets me for

that is the daycare right here. They gave me footage.

I've been down here.

Everybody else saying, y' all gotta get the footage. Y' all gotta get it.

They're not giving it to me.

I've been door to door.

I'm outside every day, all day. I'm spending every dime I got giving out flyers. And today, y' all want to come and do a search in my house. And I know my goddamn daughter not in my house, right? She's not in my house. You're not doing a.

Like, literally leave.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

It's not up to us for the.

[Lavette Bryce]

It is up to y' all right away. It is up to us. Because you put my information in wrong. You wouldn't.

You put.

Yes, you did. You put my daughter in his bowl.

No, I didn't.

You did. You put my daughter in as bald head with brown eyes.

No, I didn't.

Girl, listen what I'm saying.

[Lauren LaRosa]

You're talking.

[Lavette Bryce]

I had to have your whole other office. Listen, guys, you can. Listen. You ain't been helping. I don't give a. About that.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay, well, you need.

[Lavette Bryce]

I've been asking y'. All. I've been asking you for help since March.

Cannot do a video.

Baby, listen.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That's not how it works.

[Lavette Bryce]

Maybe it's been. It's been 30 days. What are you talking about? A day? That's how it works. But if it was yours. If it was yours, y' all gonna use the entire. That's how it works.

[Lauren LaRosa]

That is how it works, man.

[Lavette Bryce]

Listen, get the.

From in front of my house.

I do it by myself because I've been doing it by myself, sweetheart.

[Liberty Mutual Female Voice]

So listen.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

Go ahead.

[Lavette Bryce]

Listen.

Go ahead.

Just back up with all this.

Go ahead. Get them in front of my house.

Are we. Are we done?

I'm doing your job. I'm doing your job. I've been doing your job for the last month.

[Michael Tuda / Dos and Mingos Host]

Have a nice day.

[Lavette Bryce]

You as well. You as well, Peterson, whatever your name is. You. Y' all don't do your job. Y' all gonna wait a month later to come search my house for my daughter that I know ain't in there, Stupid.

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[Lauren LaRosa]

And at this point, you hear in this video from Kaelyn's media, Ms. Levette, she's upset. It's like at this point, she feels like she's doing their job for them, as she mentions in the interview. Again, this video was shot prior to our interview. She has been documenting her process herself. You guys may have not have heard or seen this video, as disappointing as it is to hear, because media hasn't. They're not covering it. It's not. Instagram and social media have been her biggest voices. We put an end to that today.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

If August is watching this, what is your message to her right now and wherever she is, as she's able to hear or potentially see you?

[Lavette Bryce]

My message to you is that I love you. You Know you love. You know I am coming for you. You just got to give me a sign and be strong and hold on and fight. Please fight. You had a lot of family coming for you. We love you. Do not give up. I love you.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

What is it that you need right now? Like, if, you know, if the police department is doing what they're supposed to do, if the community is doing what they're supposed to do, the media, what does a legit setup to help you amplify this to get to your daughter. What does that look like? What's the call to action for everybody watching and listening? How can they help you?

[Lavette Bryce]

I feel like the call to action is, like I said, this is just not one singular incident. This is multiple incidents, coincidences. You know, I feel like if the. If the Wilmington police are involved, they are actually. No, they should know majority of who, what, where, because they're taking places in certain areas. You know what I mean? I feel like it should be some kind of task force that you. I mean, task force set up to handle just this, like, because it's literally people coming in our neighborhoods, and they're snatching our kids, and they're doing whatever they want to them, and they're killing them. I'm getting them drugs, and they're making them disappear, and they're making them do all kinds of things. And I'm a mom, and I can think of a hundred different things that you could be doing to my child right now, and I'm not accepting it. I just feel like they need to be on the ball and paying attention. They made it so easy for people to get on and off the highway from our kids, like, around. You made it so easy. Y' all made it so easy. But y' all are not. They're not patrolling these areas. Y', all, like, you never know, you could be riding past a person screaming in the car right next to you, right next to you, and nobody's paying attention. I feel like they need to have some kind of. They. They need. They need to have training on it. First of all, what to look for besides drug dealers. But it's no right if y' all can do all this investigation and find the people that's bringing drugs from Miami all the way out. You can find the people who's trafficking these kids. You can find the people that snatching these kids. They're right in the neighborhood. They're blending in with us. There's some. I mean, if you can find all that out of a person, 30 days, you can find where These kids are and who's taking them and how they're taking them. I believe that.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

And I know you talked a bit

[Lauren LaRosa]

about the neighborhood that you're in.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

I'm from Wilmington, Delaware, and I talk a lot about being from Delaware. But, you know, we have listeners and viewers from all over the world, all over the U.S. so Wilmington, Delaware is an inner city, for those of you guys who don't know, predominantly black. You know, and it's one of the things where, like, we deal with what the inner cities deal with. So the drugs, the, you know, the. The underfunding of the schools, the redlining, you know, the lack of support for the houses and the gentrification that comes in. So when she's talking about the neighborhoods, she's talking about the fact that, like, the kids there are black and brown, so the care level is just a

[Lavette Bryce]

lot different, and it's not there, you know, so our kids feel like, hey, they don't have nothing to look forward to because this is it. Like, but when I was growing up, we had things to do. You know, we were everywhere. Like, we had things to do. We had east side steppers. Like, parents were involved. Now, you know, parents don't want to get involved in anything now. Like, something got. Something has to change. And I know it starts with us. If the government isn't even helping us try to do, what do you. What do you. What are we supposed to do? Like, what am I supposed to do? Like, I wasn't supposed to, you know, snap on the police like that. I'm supposed to just let it stay face and hope that they're out there looking for my kids. Nobody gonna look for mine. Like. Like me. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Yeah.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

You know, however. And whatever it is that I can do, I don't. All I got is a platform. So, you know, you're always welcome to come to spread information, to post information. We'll make sure we put all of the flyers of August throughout this interview as well, too, so people can see her, you know, and. And is there anything. If people see her walking on the street or see her somewhere or wherever? I know you mentioned that she. She deals with different, like, mental issues before.

[Lavette Bryce]

Absolutely.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

So is there a certain way to approach her or not approach her? Like, how do. If a common person just happens to run into her or see her, what are the instructions?

[Lavette Bryce]

My first instruction is to let August know she has to feel safe with you first. She has to feel safe. And right now, I don't think she's gonna feel safe with Anybody. So my, I would say contact the police. If you can follow her and contact the police, that would be better because, you know, we don't know what she's going through. You know, she can be a threat to herself and others. Like I said, it can go either way. August is like, she has to know that you are taking her to me. She's going to her mother or she's going to her aunt. If you said Aunt Crystal is coming for you, call her Aunt Crystal, she's going to go with you. Otherwise I say call the, call the police because they might have a better shot. They can actually come with the mental counselors with her and help get her together and then we can go from there. But I know you know, my, my daughter isn't on drugs. Like she's not running around here popping perks. You know, everybody smoke a little weed here and there, but she don't do that. She doesn't drink. Like she's a picky eater. She's picky with everything. She reads books. You know, she's a different child. She's a quiet child. So this right here, this is different. This is like it almost. It's. It's breaking me. So I can imagine what it's doing to my daughter right now.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

Yeah, well, praying for the August is safe return home and for your strength, you know, throughout the days. And I only said you were strong

[Lauren LaRosa]

earlier because every day that I've been

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

talking to you, it's just been like you getting up, you're like you're continuing to do what you need to do to try and bring your baby girl home. But you know, I'm not a parent yet, but I can only imagine that that's just what comes with being a mom, you know.

[Lavette Bryce]

Absolutely. It's unconditional love. Like I said, nobody's going to do it like you. And you know, if I stop, then everybody stops, you know, and I'm not going to stop because I don't want nobody stop. I want everybody. I want everybody to remember all these girls faces because like I say, if we find one, we might find all of them. And it's too many of them missing. It's too many of them.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

Are there certain?

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[Millie de Chirico]

Remember when you'd walk into your local video rental place and there were always those two employees behind the counter arguing about movies?

[Casey O'Brien]

Well, that's us. I'm Millie de Chirico.

[Millie de Chirico]

And I'm Casey o'. Brien. And now we're arguing about movies on our podcast. Podcast. Dear movies, I love you from the exactly right network. Can I say something about the Criterion Closet?

[Lavette Bryce]

Go ahead. Dude.

[Millie de Chirico]

They're letting too many people in there

[Casey O'Brien]

okay, that's another film gripe. I got two.

[Millie de Chirico]

Sadly, that rental place doesn't exist anymore. It's probably a store that sells running

[Casey O'Brien]

shoes or an ice cream shop with an extra P and an E at the end.

[Millie de Chirico]

So consider us your slacker movie clerks in podcast form.

[Casey O'Brien]

I would like to establish a timeline of the moment you figured out who Channing Tatum was.

[Millie de Chirico]

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[Casey O'Brien]

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[Millie de Chirico]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

Cause I was seeing, like, once I

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

started following the, you know, your daughter and the other girls that I saw that were missing from Wilmington, Delaware, I began seeing, like, Facebook groups and websites. Like, are there certain sites that you're following that also provide information on other missing young men and women in the inner cities?

[Lavette Bryce]

Yes, it's an unsolved group on Facebook.

He.

He keeps us loaded. Jackie Canard. She. She. People send her all kinds of stuff. Not all the time. It's on groups. A lot of people were sending us stuff directly from them. Like some of the moms, like, Mississippi, you know, all over. Some people are just sending it to us. And we're actually, you know, forwarding some of them over to the groups because they get out a little faster with the groups. Yeah, they just be. They just becoming like. And I just, you know, since then, I just, you know, been following all of them because again, you never know. People missing from over in California, they might have brought them here. We might see them. You know, like, we all can try to pay attention. And no, we might not find them all, but we can probably get most of these girls home if we start paying attention. Stuff don't look right. If it don't look right, it's not right. You need to take a picture.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I got you.

[Lavette Bryce]

Like, it's bad out here. You didn't know it was this bad until it gets bad.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

No. Well, again, let me know whatever you need if there's like, new flyers or anything to post. You know, I try and post as much as I can remember throughout the week or like, you know, week, weekends, whatever. The poster flyers that you sent me.

[Lavette Bryce]

So, yeah, yep, I have new flyers. I'll actually send those over to you. We're going to print up a couple more, but, like, do it small with a whole bunch of different of the girls on there just so we can try to get as many. I want to try to do that at least once a week with a different flyer with about five or six different girls on there. Just so everybody can just keep looking. Because it's like, listen, I've been in Philly. It's bad there. As far as you know, the trafficking at the girls Jersey is horrible. And I'm. Listen, I'm going everywhere. I'm going everywhere.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

I wanted to ask you about something too. I know you told me. I just thought about this when you were talking about the flyers. You were telling me that originally when you reported August missing, first of all the information, like there was never an official report filed. And then when they did file it, all of her information, like the debt would have described her to someone was completely wrong.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Absolutely.

[Lavette Bryce]

So like I said when I. When I first started this, me and my friend, like I said, we were just out in the city. We started handing the flyers to, you know, the police officers. They were the ones who let us know that it wasn't right. Like it wasn't in the system. So I went down to wpd, asked them for a copy of my, you know. You know, they give you the little blue card with your number on it. So I asked them for a piece, a copy of it. And I said as soon as I looked at it and I said, sir, this is all wrong. Like, who fixes this? That's that number again. You're gonna have to dial 654-5151 and speak to somebody on there and. And whoever put it in has to fix it. That's another 11 hours I gotta wait for somebody to call me back to fix everything that's wrong in here. Like you put my daughter in here as bald, baby bald, black eyes. You put her in here as a prior runaway, which is probably why y' all never look for in the first place. Because she has never ran away, she's never been a prior runaway. And then she there that she's depressed, not that she's suicidal ideation, not that she has severe, severe bipolar, not that she's on medicine every single day and she hasn't had her medicine. You didn't put her. She took pictures of my daughter's hair because she had just got her hair. Her hair is in locks just a little thicker than mine, about this length. She took pictures of them. You didn't even input any of the pictures of my daughter. Not like you didn't do nothing. Black female, in her name and her approximate height. That was the only part that was right.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

How long was it like that.

[Lavette Bryce]

When did I see it? Probably like that, for about a week and a half. I can get the exact date on for you when I do the video, because the day I did that video, I went and seen the mayor earlier that day. And that's when I got the copy of the. That's when I got the updated copy, because I had stopped the guy. It was three police on the beat in front of my house, and I had stopped him. And when he went on, he went and pulled it up, and he was like, this shit's all up. Excuse me, That's. He. That's exact words. And I was like, well, what do you mean? So he turned his. His screen to me so I can see. And I can see, like, every. They have a lot of steps that they have to do to input all the information down to the tattoos. Like, it's not just like, hey, you just put everything on this one screen. No, you got to go to this screen. You got to do this when you get to this screen and ask for a picture of, like, what the tattoo looks like. And when you get to this screen over here to input the photos, you got to input the photos one by one, upload them to, like, if I sat there with that man for 45 minutes while he. While he fixed the whole report, then submitted it. When he. As soon as he submitted it, the NCIC number popped up. That's how I knew it was submitted correctly, because before then, it wasn't in even an NCIC number, which mean it never hit the national database anyway.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

And normally something like that, if you had not been doing what you were doing, it would have just been overlooked. And was there any repercussions for the, you know, the sergeant or detective or whoever that input that information that way?

[Lavette Bryce]

No. And if it was. Well, obviously no, because she's still on a beat. I just seen her the other day by my house. She's still on the beat. So obviously not. But, you know, that's something I'm a deal with on another day. Yeah, you know, I'll deal with all that on another day. You know, the mayor on the other day, the state senate on city council. Because this.

[Lauren LaRosa]

It's a.

[Lavette Bryce]

It's a line, it's a change. Oh, this, like. And all chains has been broken in all the whole aspect of it. The whole chain of everything is broken.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Got you.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

Alrighty. Well, I mean, I'm hoping once we put this package together and put this out there, this can get you some. Some eyes and, you know, just get you a Little shake up. And. Yeah, like, I, I don't, I don't know. I'm just trying to help out as much as I can.

[Lavette Bryce]

So. Yeah, like I said, until it happens to you, we do not know what's going on. And it won't affect, it doesn't affect other people as much as it will affect you. Yeah, but it should affect this community because it, it. I shouldn't have had to scream like that. And now I understand with a lot of parents, even you know, when the parents where, you know, their, their loved ones have been murdered or what, I understand the pain that they're going through because obviously the entire structure is broken and nobody's here to fix it. I'm going to fix it, though.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Got you.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

All right, well, stay in contact with me. I'll stay in contact with you and let you know when this is posted and how we're going to do the whole thing, but I'll make sure that it gets the platform that you need it to.

[Lavette Bryce]

Absolutely. Thank you so much. And I appreciate you.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

Of course.

[Lavette Bryce]

Thank you. I would appreciate it.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

And if there are any other moms of, you know, kids that are missing or, you know, whatever that, you know, need the platform, let me know.

[Lavette Bryce]

I definitely will.

[Lauren LaRosa]

Okay.

[Lavette Bryce]

Thank you. You have a good evening.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

You too.

[Lavette Bryce]

My name is Lavette Bryce. I'm looking for my daughter, August Ben Hudefa. Her name is Aisha. She went missing. I live right here on South Franklin. She was last seen down here on Franklin and Elm. We've been out here every day since the 22nd.

Look before

the Wilmington police, New Castle county police. Nobody's helping me. I'm out here every day advocately looking for my daughter.

If you see her, if you see

anything, I'm telling you, look for anything, any signs you can contact me. I'm going to do better. 302-367-037.

It's my uncle Kelly.

He's out here looking as well.

Give me a call at 215-252-2425.

I'm out here. I, I'm about my family. I don't play about my daughter. I'm not playing about any of these kids. We need to bring these kids home. We got to come together. We need to get these kids. We need to get somebody out here to help us look for these kids. Please. If you need anything, think, contact me. I'm Lovette. Everybody loves Lovey on every social media aspect. I'm out here. I'm going everywhere. If you find my daughter, you call Me, I don't care if it's 2:00 clock in the morning. I'm coming behind mine. Please help me bring my baby home. Please help me bring all the babies.

All of them.

All of them. Every last one of them.

Please.

I appreciate you guys. I love you guys. Please share it before you go. Go before you go. Is the cops helping you out at all? Helping me at all? They just came. It's almost a month later. They just came and executed a search for it on my house. Like my daughter is in my house. And yes, I did snap. This is a month later. It's a month later. A month later. You want to execute. You couldn't come in my house at any time. I don't have nothing to hide. And then the cop said, I'm not helping you from. I don't need your help. This city, the world is helping me. But I'm coming for the city. I'm coming for you. Wasn't going to help you. They're not helping me. They're not helping. I appreciate everybody. Please get it out there. Look for my baby. Look for August. I promise you. Mine coming home. She's trying to get home. Somebody took mine.

She don't do this.

She's coming home and I'm coming for mom. She know I'm coming.

[Lauren LaRosa]

I'm Lauren LaRosa. This has been another episode of the Latest with Lauren LaRosa.

[Interviewer / Podcast Host]

This is your daily dig on all

[Lauren LaRosa]

things pop culture, entertainment news and all of the conversations that shake the room. My low riders. I appreciate you guys every single time you're here to talk with me about all of the things. I'll see you in my next episode.

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and Doug. There's nowhere I wouldn't go to help someone customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual, even if it means sitting front row at a comedy show.

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[Liberty Mutual Female Voice]

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[Liberty Mutual Male Voice]

We help people come customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual. Together we're married.

[Liberty Mutual Female Voice]

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[Lavette Bryce]

Liberty. Liberty.

[Daniel Alarcon / John Green]

I'm Daniel Alarcon, and this is my friend. He's much more famous than I am. I wouldn't go that far, but I'm John Green, co host of the podcast the Away End with my old friend Daniel. On our podcast the Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things football, soccer is the most important. Listen to the Away End with Daniel Alarcon and John green on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Daniel Alarcon / John Green]

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[Lavette Bryce]

Which, by the way, wasn't Taylor Swift who said that for the first time. I actually, I thought it was. I got that wrong.

[Liberty Mutual Female Voice]

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[Lauren LaRosa]

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